Jay Parini is Axinn Professor of English at Middlebury College,
Vermont. His six novels include The Last Station.
Count Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828. He took part in the Crimean
War, and married Sofya Andreyevna Behrs in 1862. Over the next
fifteen years they had thirteen children and Tolstoy managed his
vast estates in the Volga Steppes, continued his educational
projects, cared for his peasants and wrote War and Peace (1869) and
Anna Karenina (1877). A Confession (1879-82) marked a spiritual
crisis in his life. In 1901 he was excommuincated by the Russian
Holy Synod. He died in 1910, in the course of a dramamtic flight
from home, at the small railway station of Astapovo.
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